my favorite pirate of all time is the is
Peter Easton who was based up here in
Newfoundland then he had a fleet of
something like 14 or 17 ships they
called him the pirate admiral he often
stuck close to Newfoundland and preyed
on the trade routes from there once a
year Spanish galleons would come from
South America back to Spain he would
prey on them he amassed quite a fortune
I've heard it said that Peter Easton
amassed two million pounds that is
really interesting when you consider
what the solution to the cipher that was
on the 90-foot stone said which was 40
feet below two million pounds our
bearing Edward Teach noted Blackbeard
had said before he was hung that he had
the very distress where were none but
myself and the devil can find it he
claimed to have him the treasure
somewhere in the New World
so people made the connection between
peach and Oak Island a pirate Admiral
Captain kit and Blackbeard did these
infamous Buccaneers really bury their
stolen treasures on Oak Island and even
if they did where did they get the
incredible engineering skills that would
have enabled them to bury a treasure so
ingeniously complete with booby traps
you know when I was first asked whether
it was possible pirates could have
constructed the money pit I scoffed you
know I mean because me pirates would
what would they do with their booty to
dig a hole ten feet deep bury it and
come back for it when they were ready
but I didn't know then about the works
that Pirates had created at Port Royal
in Jamaica and on Tortuga which are
incredibly elaborate systems of tunnels
and vaults that more than match and
scope what's been done on Oak Island so
they're clearly war pirate engineers and
I couldn't be as dismissive of the
pirate theory after that but even if
pirates did hide an incredible treasure
on Oak Island is it really possible that
it would bear a deadly curse there are
some Oak Island historians who are
convinced that the answer is a
disturbing yes the pirate folklore it's
a common thing that they would bury
somebody that was alive to guard the
treasure as a spirit so it would be
cursed and haunted so no Vale to get
access to the treasure that seems to
play into a lot of the myths regarding
that the curse on the island one of the
stories is that pirates may have buried
their treasure on the island in treasure
tunnels and they had slaves digging for
them and in the process they left them
there to die
as they knew they were dying those
slaves curse those pirates and curse
that treasure and by extension the whole
island
sometimes those near the tunnels late at
night could hear the rattling of chains
perhaps that's the energy we're dealing
with today it is like a time bomb
something that goes down through the
ages
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